A new study from the National Institutes of Health shows a jump in both hospital-acquired infections and resistance to the antibiotics used to treat them. The findings are based on data gathered ...

The steps necessary to prevent health care-acquired infections are the same ones needed to prevent workers and patients from spreading Covid-19 in health facilities: wash hands, ...

Study validates test for health care-acquired infections. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2016 / 09 / 160902142145.htm ...

With extensive funding and training, federal agencies and health care systems have spent years working together to reduce hospital-acquired infections and increase overall patient safety in the ...

Coordinated effort by health care facilities can prevent many hospital-acquired infections. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2015 / 08 / 150804203023.htm ...

Surveys were conducted in 183 hospitals. Of 11,282 patients, 452 had 1 or more health care–associated infections (4.0%; 95% confidence interval, 3.7 to 4.4).

Researchers reviewed Medicare claims data for more than 662,000 hospitalizations that occurred from 2009 through 2019 at 51 U.S. hospitals acquired by private equity between 2010 and 2017 ...

With multiple health threats like COVID-19 still looming and flu season ahead, people are concerned about their safety, especially if/when they need to seek serious medical attention. Some individuals ...

Former New York Lieutenant Governor Betsy McCaughey (R), the Chair of Committee to Reduce Infectious Deaths, talked about health care-acquired infection and health care in the U.S.

Infections from c. difficile and antibiotic-resistant organisms are a problem on the radar of both state and federal health officials. The state Health Department estimates there were 2,000 deaths ...

A new study by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) details the design and validation of a low-cost, rapid and highly accurate screening tool—known as KlebSeq—for potentially ...